RedWater: A Rodwell System to Extract Water from Martian Ice Deposits

• Published in: Earth and Space 2021
• Main Authors: Mank, Z. D., Zacny, K. A., Sabahi, D., Buchbinder, M. J., Bradley, B. C., Stolov, L. A., van Susante, Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech 2021
• Subjects: Drilling; Ice; Space exploration; Mars; Data collection; Orbits; Laboratory tests; Sea ice; Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering; Antarctic; Rodriguez; Antarc*; Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/15790; https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483374.045

The ability to mine ice water in situ is of vital importance to enable future manned exploration of the solar system. In the past decade, orbital measurements have revealed that a third of the Martian surface contains shallow ground ice. Mars reconnaissance orbiter (MRO) shallow subsurface radar (SH...